Get some enterprising hacker to release those 30k pics. If some schoolkids visited the courthouse, we'll see which is stronger: "think of the children!" or "think of the terrists!"
Nonsense, then they'll just invent a new type of paedophile terrorist and use that to justify even more invasive procedures. Just like they invented the threat of terrorists and paedophiles to push through other invasive laws.
They are not mutually exclusive, "Think of the children and the terrorists". Now back to your TSA approved cereal citizen.
I'm glad my nation didn't buy into this whole terror nonsense, we at least only have to worry about those thinking of the children.
Of course the naked photos will never leak. Wait, that's first thing that happened. Well, the public seems comfortable with the idea. Wait, even DUBAI banned them as intrusive.
The public isn't comfortable with the idea, the public is scared. Well the exhibitionists in US society will be comfortable with it.
Secondly, comparing US society to Emirati society is a very bad comparison. Emirati society is publicly very conservative ("old fashioned" conservative, not "religious" conservative although that one also applies to the UAE a bit) to dress and behaviours. Everything has it's place and nothing out of order, it's not just the Hajab for the women but the males also are expected to dress and act a certain way. UAE banned them because naked pictures are not the kind of thing a good Emerati should be looking at, not because they were intrusive.
This is nonsense. Manufactured goods are not radically cheaper in China than in the US. Labor is
Re-read that part of my post you quoted. I never said anything about manufactured goods
I said, to a Chinese person, Chinese labour is not cheap.
High wages in the west lead to high labour costs, low wages in the east lead to low labour costs. The primary driver for higher base wages is the fact that things cost more.
Having actually travelled to Asia, hiring labour is not cheap when you earn less then US$3K a year thus you end up doing most things yourself.
I have two HTC Phones, they will charge at the same speed no matter what charger is plugged in. They shipped a standard USB charger with the Dream and Legend (Micro-USB) I've been able to use Belkin USB wall chargers with no drop in charging speed. The old ExtUSB on the Dream and Magic was for audio only, HTC has since abandoned this idea.
Two unpatched flaws. What kind of reporting is this? If they were patched there wouldn't be a problem. Do we really need to keep sticking unnecessary and redundant words into a headline? If these flaws have been around for a while you could say "two flaws in IOS remain unpatched" but really, "two unpatched flaws". I'd hate to think what will happen when we find patched flaws.
It's the cost of all the crapware you delete. The fact I get recovery media from Dell is the biggest reason I buy Dell, it costs them nothing to stamp out the 7 odd disks, other manufacturers just dont want you re-installing the OS without the bundled crapware as well.
I appreciate the film makers revolt on this but I seem to remember that something similar happened when "talkies" came out and when "technicolor" came out. Purist felt the new technology did more harm than good to film making. And that is probably true in many cases though there is schlock enough with 2D color films anyway.
The thing is 3D is neither new, groundbreaking or revolutionary. Nor is there a large demand from the market. There have been plenty of new film technologies that have failed to "take over", 3D is the latest one. It's not the first time either and in 20 years we'll be having this same discussion again.
The innovation and creativity of Americans is what has made US powerful. Why would you want to create a law that will affect your livelihood in the future?
Because of the business ethos of those who were made rich and powerful with American innovation and creativity. Much of which came from public sources such as American universities and the NASA program which are now under funded so those same businessmen can get taxpayer money to pay for their mistakes.
They aren't thinking beyond the next quarter, screw the future if there is profit to be made now.
It looks like jailbreakme.com is just a vehicle to force people into installing Cydia.
Then you must also consider the Iphone is just a vehicle to force people into Itunes and other Apple products and services.
a. Further, with the exception of the few apps that unlock some functionality on your phone it looks like most of the Apps on the Cydia store are just too low quality to have been approved by Apple.
And all the applications that are not permitted in the Itunes store because they violate one of the holy Apple edicts about no-tethering, no-porn, no-competition with Apple, no-mentioning Android, no-non approved code, no-anything lord Steve does not like, no-oh bugger it, the approval staff just dont like your name.
Jailbreaking is popular for a very good reason
but the experience was very poor.
Are you certain that's not the Iphone, I've found my experiences with them to be very poor mainly because I have to go through loopholes, hacks and thrid party services to do simple things like add my own ringtone or use it as a storage device.
makes me glad to have my phone in Apple's walled garden,
Battered wives are very happy to have their husbands, despite the domestic violence.
. I'm thankful that I was able to SIM unlock my old phone so my girlfriend could use it
You have to hack the phone just to get this? With every phone I've ever owned, it's either been unlocked outright or unlock-able by the carrier upon request.
Sorry but this is an obvious and very poorly done troll. Those who modded it up should be very ashamed.
Maybe it's because I'm Irish, but it annoys the piss out of me when staff bother me without my beckon.
It's not just because you're Irish, I have the same issue (which makes shopping in Asia an incredibly painful experience, cheap but painful).
I hate being bothered by relentless sales drones, asking me once is ok but if I say "I'm still looking, thanks" go stand in the corner until I'm ready for you.
you're just taking 5 minutes out of a Specialist's day,
It's a sad day for I.T. staff everywhere when a reset monkey crossed with a retail monkey is referred to as a "specialist".
And when I want to make a statement, I go to Bunnings (a hardware store), into the arts and crafts section and use the spray glue and wooden letters to write profanities. I'd at least set the phones to start blasting out "Killing in the Name of" at full volume in a random order at one minute intervals from each other (if that's even possible on Iphones, personally dont touch them myself).
AND Android is available on about 20 different phone models and 4 carriers.
And the difference between each model is...
mostly aesthetic such as a choice of colour. Thanks for playing.
They operate all the same functions, just like a laptop with MS windows from Dell is no different then a laptop with MS Windows from Asus. They'll both run Firefox.
Apple's Iphone at the time only sold two models
Iphone 4
Iphone 3GS
Iphone 3G... no, wait.
There are 3 different models of 3GS being sold, two different models of Iphone 4 and 2 different models of refurbished 3G's still being sold, in two different colours. So lets do the math (3+2+2)*2=14 models of Iphone.
Apple is not the only one who can play with statistics.
Is another way of saying "Apple deliberately under-supplied". It's hardly surprising to think that the Iphone sold out in some countries when they only received 12,000 (and this is for a nations which is geographically roughly the size of the continental US).
Iphone 4 sold 3 million in 23 days. Lets see, that averages out to 130,000 devices per day.
In June Google announced that 160,000 Android devices were being activated per day. So Apple is still 30,000 behind Android.
Lets take into account that 1.7 million Iphones were sold in the first 3 days (ignoring the 2 months of pre-orders of course) and the number for the remaining 20 days is 65,000 units.
Simple math. If we accept Googles claim at face value (and we do if we expect to do the same with Apple's) then Android is still outselling Apple.
...I wonder which is more popular amongst geek culture. Android is Linux based, so it has a ton of geek cred...but many a geek has allowed Apple's products to take them over
Those who spend hours getting some obscure function on their Android phone half-working and enjoy it are Geeks.
Those who buy Mac's to appear more "cutting edge" and "technologically superior" are Weeks (Wannabe Geeks).
Apple sells an image and being a geek is not about image, it's more the ability and passion about doing more with your tech, not to have your tech look better or "Just Works". A broken laptop is a fun evenings work for a geek, we dont want it to "just work".
For example: I need to migrate an enterprise application to a handheld computer platform, and this report makes me think I should start hiring engineers with knowledge of android instead of iOS or Windows Mobile developers.
Out of these three, which one has enterprise level security features and allows the enterprise to have complete control of the device up to and including a customised version of the OS built speficially by (or for) the company?
The operating system matters because it doesn't matter if I buy a Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Legend or Motorola Milestone becasue I'm still getting the same Android OS.
Asking for a single vendor comparison is pointless. What you want is like to like and right now all Android phones can do the same things as Iphones (vice versa is not true) so comparing a single manufacturer is not like to like, it's stacking statistics in your favour and frankly it's a weak tactic.
They can't hope to compete with every other smartphone vendor releasing an Android phone.
They could but they wont license their OS because they would lose control over it.
Like most other U.S.-bashing slashdot members, you fail to include some important facts in your comparison. For instance, population of either country. Please note...
Like most people who dont understand statistics, it scales.
Most things measured are per-capita or per-person. Norway spend X Kroner on medical care per person and gets Z level of service, The US spends X Dollars per person on medical care and gets y service. Y happens to be lower then Z in this case.
Quoting population numbers is a terrible example, the average wage is higher, but the average cost of health care is lower and these are both measurements per-person. The same with unemployment rates %== percent or "out of 100". You can whine about taxes but the Norwegians use taxes to pay for things that must come out of your pocket (health care for example and as much as you might like to argue, you cant go without it and live). Also examine why Noggies can retire much earlier then Americans, I know one who works six months a year in Norway and spends winter time in his own tropical paradise in Thailand, he's just turned 40.
As others have pointed out, Norway is a much smaller nation then the US but has a much lower population density (which means a higher cost of infrastructure per person). So realistically, using population as the only measurement of effectiveness the US should be doing 3 times as well as Norway with a population density of 32/KM2 compared to Norway's 12/KM2. But using population density as a measurement is bunk, the US's problem is the republocrats cant permit the democuns to anything useful and vice versa, that and the fact you allow your politicians to become far more corrupt.
Funny, my Android phone does the same exact thing and it uses a standard USB micro interface. You need a special plug to get the full 1000ma charging, but it can use regular plugs too and charge at 500ma without frying anything.
Same with Nokia...
or any other phone that uses the standard USB Spec for charging.
Sorry to distract you from the "profit is evil" theme, but the reason consumer electronics can't be repaired in America is due to the fantastically high cost of labor there. But don't listen to me, read here:
Sorry to distract you from the "But teh labour is too expensive in Amercia" rant but a $3/h repair job in China is fine when you're on US$40K a year but when you're on US$2K it's just as expensive as the "hyper inflated cost of labour in America".
Economy scales, you're paying roughly the same in the US as the Chinese are in China. Any differences can be attributed to skill shortage/abundance. For a Chinese person, Chinese labour is not cheap.
My Chinese born friend (Most HK born, being a British protectorate up until 99 made it easy to get into AU) will pretty much take a screwdriver to anything that is broken long before they even think of taking it to a repair person. Their second step is to call one of their friends around to do it for cheap. The concept of "Mates Rates" in Australia means that you effectively get $60/h work for far less because you or one of your friends is friends with the person who is doing the work. Quite often, people fix things for a "carton" (a case of beer, which is an alcoholic beverage containing around 4-5% alcohol made from barely and hops. Beer traditionally has a distinct flavour, I thought I'd include that as American beer lacks these qualities).
The biggest problem with American labor is that it lacks "u". Americans just aren't willing to pick up a screwdriver or instruction manual and figure out how to fix something simple. It's easier just to throw it out and buy a new one, the disposable electronics culture evolved because of this not the other way around. If you put the "u" back in labour the cost plummets as you're only paying for your own time.
Read an article from http://badphysics.wordpress.com/, spend a few futile minutes googling for more pictures and trying to internally reconcile her ravishing looks with such effortless eloquence and boundless intelligence, and then fall even deeper into self-loathing despair with the realization that even your hypothetical best version of yourself wouldn't be good enough for her.
Why do people feel the need to go after unattainable women when attractive, attainable women are everywhere. Take Thailand for example, yes you wont get a conversation about nuclear physics but there is lots of great sex with no hang ups. Better yet unlike western chicks, she'll actually be nice to you and appreciative of the things you do for her.
Besides this, breeding smart people with smart people normally produces a child of spectacular mediocrity, back to Thailand you'll find they are a people who are hardy, disease resistant and genetically diverse. Not to mention attractive,
but people losing root (permanently, as it seems) when upgrading to the latest official updates
Umm... that's always been the case.
Fairly logical too. Of course the new version of the OS will re-write permissions and fix whatever hole was used to create root access. Which is why most people who want root access typically start using a community ROM. If you haven't figured this one out, you need to go back to the very basics of modding. Every modding guide since 1.1 has come with a warning saying "official updates will likely remove root".
No encrypted bootloaders,
Case in point. Open/replaceable bootloader == no problems.
I just made exactly the same switch (Moto Milestone => HTC Desire), and it seems that even though Moto was horrible in terms of being locked down,
I haven't. My next phone will be a HTC Vision if it's decent enough and drops below A$600 (quite possible if the AUD-GBP rate doesn't change 1:0.57) due mainly to the hardware KB which looks to be the same KB as the old HTC Dream (which was a fantastic KB). But this will depend on modability as I dont like HTC Sense.
I'm just a little apprehensive about future phones - HTC seems to be closing root-holes at a very rapid pace.
So long as you have an unlocked bootloader you dont really need this. I recognise that most users shouldn't have root and now most functions dont require it. But the few that do want it should be able to get it via a means that does not place any software support onus on the manufacturer.
It's only a matter of time before efuse is broken however.
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Nonsense, then they'll just invent a new type of paedophile terrorist and use that to justify even more invasive procedures. Just like they invented the threat of terrorists and paedophiles to push through other invasive laws.
They are not mutually exclusive, "Think of the children and the terrorists". Now back to your TSA approved cereal citizen.
I'm glad my nation didn't buy into this whole terror nonsense, we at least only have to worry about those thinking of the children.
The public isn't comfortable with the idea, the public is scared. Well the exhibitionists in US society will be comfortable with it.
Secondly, comparing US society to Emirati society is a very bad comparison. Emirati society is publicly very conservative ("old fashioned" conservative, not "religious" conservative although that one also applies to the UAE a bit) to dress and behaviours. Everything has it's place and nothing out of order, it's not just the Hajab for the women but the males also are expected to dress and act a certain way. UAE banned them because naked pictures are not the kind of thing a good Emerati should be looking at, not because they were intrusive.
Re-read that part of my post you quoted. I never said anything about manufactured goods
I said, to a Chinese person, Chinese labour is not cheap.
High wages in the west lead to high labour costs, low wages in the east lead to low labour costs. The primary driver for higher base wages is the fact that things cost more.
Having actually travelled to Asia, hiring labour is not cheap when you earn less then US$3K a year thus you end up doing most things yourself.
Wrong again.
I have two HTC Phones, they will charge at the same speed no matter what charger is plugged in. They shipped a standard USB charger with the Dream and Legend (Micro-USB) I've been able to use Belkin USB wall chargers with no drop in charging speed. The old ExtUSB on the Dream and Magic was for audio only, HTC has since abandoned this idea.
But...
Two unpatched flaws. What kind of reporting is this? If they were patched there wouldn't be a problem. Do we really need to keep sticking unnecessary and redundant words into a headline? If these flaws have been around for a while you could say "two flaws in IOS remain unpatched" but really, "two unpatched flaws". I'd hate to think what will happen when we find patched flaws.
So have I
But I only pay half as much as you. Dell and local suppliers FTW. Why pay A$3K on an entry level i7 when it costs half as much for a custom build.
I use the spare money for blow and hookers.
It's the cost of all the crapware you delete. The fact I get recovery media from Dell is the biggest reason I buy Dell, it costs them nothing to stamp out the 7 odd disks, other manufacturers just dont want you re-installing the OS without the bundled crapware as well.
The thing is 3D is neither new, groundbreaking or revolutionary. Nor is there a large demand from the market. There have been plenty of new film technologies that have failed to "take over", 3D is the latest one. It's not the first time either and in 20 years we'll be having this same discussion again.
Because of the business ethos of those who were made rich and powerful with American innovation and creativity. Much of which came from public sources such as American universities and the NASA program which are now under funded so those same businessmen can get taxpayer money to pay for their mistakes.
They aren't thinking beyond the next quarter, screw the future if there is profit to be made now.
Then you must also consider the Iphone is just a vehicle to force people into Itunes and other Apple products and services.
And all the applications that are not permitted in the Itunes store because they violate one of the holy Apple edicts about no-tethering, no-porn, no-competition with Apple, no-mentioning Android, no-non approved code, no-anything lord Steve does not like, no-oh bugger it, the approval staff just dont like your name.
Jailbreaking is popular for a very good reason
Are you certain that's not the Iphone, I've found my experiences with them to be very poor mainly because I have to go through loopholes, hacks and thrid party services to do simple things like add my own ringtone or use it as a storage device.
Battered wives are very happy to have their husbands, despite the domestic violence.
You have to hack the phone just to get this? With every phone I've ever owned, it's either been unlocked outright or unlock-able by the carrier upon request.
Sorry but this is an obvious and very poorly done troll. Those who modded it up should be very ashamed.
It's not just because you're Irish, I have the same issue (which makes shopping in Asia an incredibly painful experience, cheap but painful).
I hate being bothered by relentless sales drones, asking me once is ok but if I say "I'm still looking, thanks" go stand in the corner until I'm ready for you.
It's a sad day for I.T. staff everywhere when a reset monkey crossed with a retail monkey is referred to as a "specialist".
And when I want to make a statement, I go to Bunnings (a hardware store), into the arts and crafts section and use the spray glue and wooden letters to write profanities. I'd at least set the phones to start blasting out "Killing in the Name of" at full volume in a random order at one minute intervals from each other (if that's even possible on Iphones, personally dont touch them myself).
Well Google will show you naked women if you ask...
Does Apple?
And the difference between each model is...
mostly aesthetic such as a choice of colour. Thanks for playing.
They operate all the same functions, just like a laptop with MS windows from Dell is no different then a laptop with MS Windows from Asus. They'll both run Firefox.
Iphone 4 Iphone 3GS Iphone 3G... no, wait.
There are 3 different models of 3GS being sold, two different models of Iphone 4 and 2 different models of refurbished 3G's still being sold, in two different colours. So lets do the math (3+2+2)*2=14 models of Iphone.
Apple is not the only one who can play with statistics.
Actually it's about 6 if you consider the different memory sizes. 8 if we include the 3G refurbs that are still on sale.
Is another way of saying "Apple deliberately under-supplied". It's hardly surprising to think that the Iphone sold out in some countries when they only received 12,000 (and this is for a nations which is geographically roughly the size of the continental US).
Iphone 4 sold 3 million in 23 days. Lets see, that averages out to 130,000 devices per day.
In June Google announced that 160,000 Android devices were being activated per day. So Apple is still 30,000 behind Android.
Lets take into account that 1.7 million Iphones were sold in the first 3 days (ignoring the 2 months of pre-orders of course) and the number for the remaining 20 days is 65,000 units.
Simple math. If we accept Googles claim at face value (and we do if we expect to do the same with Apple's) then Android is still outselling Apple.
Those who spend hours getting some obscure function on their Android phone half-working and enjoy it are Geeks.
Those who buy Mac's to appear more "cutting edge" and "technologically superior" are Weeks (Wannabe Geeks).
Apple sells an image and being a geek is not about image, it's more the ability and passion about doing more with your tech, not to have your tech look better or "Just Works". A broken laptop is a fun evenings work for a geek, we dont want it to "just work".
Out of these three, which one has enterprise level security features and allows the enterprise to have complete control of the device up to and including a customised version of the OS built speficially by (or for) the company?
The operating system matters because it doesn't matter if I buy a Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Legend or Motorola Milestone becasue I'm still getting the same Android OS.
Asking for a single vendor comparison is pointless. What you want is like to like and right now all Android phones can do the same things as Iphones (vice versa is not true) so comparing a single manufacturer is not like to like, it's stacking statistics in your favour and frankly it's a weak tactic.
They could but they wont license their OS because they would lose control over it.
This is not an Android problem.
Like most people who dont understand statistics, it scales.
Most things measured are per-capita or per-person. Norway spend X Kroner on medical care per person and gets Z level of service, The US spends X Dollars per person on medical care and gets y service. Y happens to be lower then Z in this case.
Quoting population numbers is a terrible example, the average wage is higher, but the average cost of health care is lower and these are both measurements per-person. The same with unemployment rates %== percent or "out of 100". You can whine about taxes but the Norwegians use taxes to pay for things that must come out of your pocket (health care for example and as much as you might like to argue, you cant go without it and live). Also examine why Noggies can retire much earlier then Americans, I know one who works six months a year in Norway and spends winter time in his own tropical paradise in Thailand, he's just turned 40.
As others have pointed out, Norway is a much smaller nation then the US but has a much lower population density (which means a higher cost of infrastructure per person). So realistically, using population as the only measurement of effectiveness the US should be doing 3 times as well as Norway with a population density of 32/KM2 compared to Norway's 12/KM2. But using population density as a measurement is bunk, the US's problem is the republocrats cant permit the democuns to anything useful and vice versa, that and the fact you allow your politicians to become far more corrupt.
Same with Nokia...
or any other phone that uses the standard USB Spec for charging.
Sorry to distract you from the "But teh labour is too expensive in Amercia" rant but a $3/h repair job in China is fine when you're on US$40K a year but when you're on US$2K it's just as expensive as the "hyper inflated cost of labour in America".
Economy scales, you're paying roughly the same in the US as the Chinese are in China. Any differences can be attributed to skill shortage/abundance. For a Chinese person, Chinese labour is not cheap.
My Chinese born friend (Most HK born, being a British protectorate up until 99 made it easy to get into AU) will pretty much take a screwdriver to anything that is broken long before they even think of taking it to a repair person. Their second step is to call one of their friends around to do it for cheap. The concept of "Mates Rates" in Australia means that you effectively get $60/h work for far less because you or one of your friends is friends with the person who is doing the work. Quite often, people fix things for a "carton" (a case of beer, which is an alcoholic beverage containing around 4-5% alcohol made from barely and hops. Beer traditionally has a distinct flavour, I thought I'd include that as American beer lacks these qualities).
The biggest problem with American labor is that it lacks "u". Americans just aren't willing to pick up a screwdriver or instruction manual and figure out how to fix something simple. It's easier just to throw it out and buy a new one, the disposable electronics culture evolved because of this not the other way around. If you put the "u" back in labour the cost plummets as you're only paying for your own time.
Why do people feel the need to go after unattainable women when attractive, attainable women are everywhere. Take Thailand for example, yes you wont get a conversation about nuclear physics but there is lots of great sex with no hang ups. Better yet unlike western chicks, she'll actually be nice to you and appreciative of the things you do for her.
Besides this, breeding smart people with smart people normally produces a child of spectacular mediocrity, back to Thailand you'll find they are a people who are hardy, disease resistant and genetically diverse. Not to mention attractive,
Did I mention the amazing sex with no hang ups?
Umm... that's always been the case.
Fairly logical too. Of course the new version of the OS will re-write permissions and fix whatever hole was used to create root access. Which is why most people who want root access typically start using a community ROM. If you haven't figured this one out, you need to go back to the very basics of modding. Every modding guide since 1.1 has come with a warning saying "official updates will likely remove root".
Case in point. Open/replaceable bootloader == no problems.
I haven't. My next phone will be a HTC Vision if it's decent enough and drops below A$600 (quite possible if the AUD-GBP rate doesn't change 1:0.57) due mainly to the hardware KB which looks to be the same KB as the old HTC Dream (which was a fantastic KB). But this will depend on modability as I dont like HTC Sense.
So long as you have an unlocked bootloader you dont really need this. I recognise that most users shouldn't have root and now most functions dont require it. But the few that do want it should be able to get it via a means that does not place any software support onus on the manufacturer.
It's only a matter of time before efuse is broken however.